Nagano prefectural police detained Masanori Aoki, 31, early in the morning after he was holed up at the home of his father, Masamichi Aoki, chairman of the Nakano city assembly. The son is accused ...

Aoki told investigators he shot the two police officers “because I assumed they would gun me down,” the sources said. Nagano prefectural police on May 27 examined the police car left at the ...

Investigative sources say Aoki told police he carried out the knife attack because he thought he was being spoken ill of, and he shot the officers because he thought they might shoot him.